Sanusi made the call when the former Head of State, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, paid him a courtesy call at his palace in Kano. He stressed the need for Nigerians to remain united and pray to bring an end the lingering insecurity challenges bedeviling the country.The monarch, who, sympathised with Buhari over the recent bomb attack…
By FEMI FOLARANMI, Yenagoa…No cause for alarm –Police Gunmen yesterday kidnapped the younger brother of the Speaker of Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr. Konbowei Benson. The younger Benson identified as Iniokpoemi, was kidnapped at the family’s country-home in Korokorosei, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Before the kidnap of the younger Benson, the…
Rising violence from brutal Islamist groups in Africa will be a key issue at an Africa summit US President Barack Obama is hosting in Washington this week. *Jonathan and ObamaBut while insecurity created by Boko Haram in Nigeria and Cameroon, for instance, or by the Shebab in Somalia and parts of Kenya and Uganda, is…
LAGOS (AFP) – Nigeria and Shell have done almost nothing to ease oil pollution in the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta, three years after a landmark UN report called for a $1 billion dollar clean-up, Amnesty International said Monday.Environmental devastation in Ogoniland has for many come to symbolise the tragedy of Nigeria’s vast oil…
Officials of Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Government visited the General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet Temitope Joshua seeking his cooperation in ensuring Ebola victims are not brought to his church for healing. by Seun Akioye -THE NATION NEWSPAPER Prophet T B Joshua As the deadly Ebola…
By Ochereome NnannaTHE Council of State last week met, and top of the decisions it took was to see to the abolition of the concept of indigenes in our nation. It set up a committee of governors drawn from the six geopolitical zones to identify discriminatory practices in all parts of the country with a…
By Tony EdikeENUGU—Enugu State police command has arrested the mortician in-charge of the Christ Specialist Hospital, Enugu, from where the corpse of Chief Theodore Ezeobi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, was reportedly stolen last Thursday morning.Some unknown persons were said to have broken into the mortuary and forcefully removed the corpse of the legal…
The series of female suicide attack in the city of Kano last week raised serious concerns throughout the country. Many feared that the female suicide bombers most of whom were said to be between the ages of 14 and 19 could be the girls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, in Borno State, more…
Ahead of its presidential primary, Nigeria’s biggest opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, has said it will field a presidential candidate that will defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 election.The National Publicity Secretary, APC, Lai Mohammed, who stated this in a telephone interview with our correspondents in Abuja on Friday, said Nigerians…
By JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that the embarrassment caused by Boko Haram insurgents will end in no distant future. He restated his government’s commitment to building strong security agencies so as to deal with the current security challenges in the country. The President stated this when he paid homage to the…